On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:23:29 +0000, Phil Cook
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>On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:01:30 GMT, yup wrote:
>
>>I hope this doesn't start more fighting in the group !
>>
>>Just a quickie.
>>
>>When packing your backpacks, would you have the most weight (ie tent) at the very top of your pack
>>or at the bottom ?
>>
>>Please help to settle an argument I'm having with a soon to be ex-mate.........
>
>For the best ballance and to maintain as natural a gait as possible the heaviest stuff should be
>nearest to your GofG. So as close to your back as possible and
>2/3 to 3/4 of the way up. Of course the heaviest thing may well be the thing you want to be able to
> get at quickly so then it goes at the top, but always as far forward as possible.
What a funny shape you must be, with your CoG somewhere just south of your shoulder blades(*). I
would have gone for the lower back area, where the weight-bearing vertebrae are.
However, I always arrange the straps on my rucksack so that most of the weight *feels* as if it is
being carried on my pelvis through the hip belt. As this tends to allow the sac a degree of freedom
around the shoulder area, I don't want its own CoG unbalancing me, and so heavy stuff goes right at
the bottom.
(*) Could be because you seem to be the dummy, not the ventriloquist ;-) Gentre of Gravity, huh ?
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